Tim Forsyth is Professor of Environment and International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Professor Forsyth is a specialist on the politics of environment and development, with a focus on understanding contested science and risk within environmental governance. His work analyses two themes: the politics and policy processes of contested environmental debates in rapidly developing countries; and the evolution of new multi-actor, multi-level forms of governance such as cross-sector partnerships or deliberative forums. He has written on climate change governance; forest policies in Asia; and social movements and local governance.
He has degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London, and has been a fellow at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs); the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex; and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Professor Forsyth undertook his PhD research in the mountains of northern Thailand, and has conducted research in the region for more than 15 years. He has research experience in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines, and Vietnam. He was also a magazine and wire-news journalist in Thailand and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Thai (written and spoken), and has skills in Burnese and Bahasa Indonesia.
Professor Forsyth is also the general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Development, and is on the editorial boards of Global Environmental Politics, Critical Policy Studies, Conservation and Society, Progress in Development Studies and Social Movement Studies.
Evans, Natalie and Forsyth, Tim (in press) How do shifting cultivators respond to resource scarcity? The Karen in Thailand. In: Cairns, M. (ed.) Shifting cultivation and environmental change: Indigenous people, agriculture and forest conservation. London: Routledge.
Forsyth, Tim (in press) Environmentalism. In: Hirsch, P. (ed.) Handbook of environmental politics in Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.
Forsyth, Tim and Walker, Andrew (2014) Hidden alliances: rethinking environmentality and the politics of knowledge in Thailand's campaign for community forestry. Conservation and Society, 12(4), pp. 408-417.
Forsyth, Tim (2014) Public concerns about transboundary haze: a comparison of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Global Environmental Change, 26, pp. 76-86.
Evans, Natalie and Forsyth, Tim (2013) What is autonomous adaptation? Resource scarcity and smallholder agency in Thailand. World Development, 43, pp. 56-66.